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XRP is a cryptocurrency created by Ripple Labs, designed to facilitate fast, low-cost cross-border payments and settlement between financial institutions.
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Ether's order-book depth slid to 35-45% of bitcoin's in the third quarter, CoinGecko found, while its price rose 70%. The slide came mainly from bitcoin's book growing by about half while ether's stayed near $13 million to $14 million.
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US spot XRP funds took in $121.4 million in September, more than the roughly $104 million of open interest that left Binance between Aug. 22 and Sept. 17. With less leverage in the market, XRP's price now depends on whether that fund buying continues into October.
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XRP Ledger's Batch amendment has 30 of 35 trusted validators behind it and a projected Oct. 9 start for bundles of up to eight transactions. Bundles cost more in fees than separate sends, and a security fix due that morning forces server operators to update.
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Bitcoin ETFs took in $6.34 billion in the third quarter as the coin rose nearly 43%, about $3.1 billion of it in a nine-day September streak. The money is real, but its late arrival leaves open whether it drove the rally or chased it.
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Armada Acquisition Corp. II shareholders approved the Evernorth merger, so a 473 million XRP treasury lists on Nasdaq as XRPN on Oct. 8. Only about $300 million of the $1 billion-plus raised is cash, and investors contributed XRP directly for much of the rest.
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CryptoQuant's scarcity index for XRP on Binance has fallen to its lowest since January 2025, with the token trading around $1.10 to $1.13. The index is scored against a shrinking baseline, so it shows that supply is returning more clearly than it shows how much.
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Korea's regulators sorted crypto into plumbing and wagering, approving a bank remittance rail while cutting off a prediction market. XRP fell below $1 anyway.
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Effectiveness clears a disclosure hurdle, and the harder question is whether investors still pay above book for a company whose main job is holding one token, when Galaxy says that premium has already gone.
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A Bitwise poll of about 400 wealth managers put stated intent to allocate at 60% within a year. The Bitwise/VettaFi benchmark shows 32% of advisors allocated in 2025, and 42% could buy crypto at all.
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Bitget lost about $351.6 million from its hot and warm wallets after attackers spoofed transaction data in a backend system, the exchange said. Cold storage held and a $464 million fund covers the loss, while about 45% of the haul is native XRP that no one can freeze.
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Cryptobriefing traces every dollar of crypto's $740 billion gain since late August to the Treasury's expanded bond buybacks. Cointelegraph, reporting the same prices on the same day, does not mention it. Perpetual futures leverage is near $160 billion in both accounts.
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Cryptobriefing puts about $1bn of volume through the program's first three days, split across Coinbase, Gemini, Kraken, Interactive Brokers and Moomoo, with X introducing every order and the five filling them.
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Korean police arrested 26,782 people in a six-month sweep against financial crime and cyber fraud, and detained 809 of them. The largest reported losses sit in two cryptocurrency schemes; marketplace scams supplied the case volume.
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Grayscale's bitcoin-free Next Gen model holds 26.11% in its XRP fund against 11.92% in the bitcoin-holding Leaders model, and the same allocation sheet puts the ether fund at 42.34% inside a suite described as capping any single asset at 40%.
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DeFiLlama's Movers dashboard still has ZEC, HYPE, UNI, XRP and SOL ahead of Bitcoin over 30 days. Over seven days three of the five are negative, with the ten-year near 4.93% and September hike odds around 60%.
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Ripple's $1 billion purchase of GTreasury put RLUSD on the dashboards of more than 1,000 corporate treasuries in April, and the constraint has moved from distribution to how fast the coin's float can turn.
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US spot bitcoin ETFs booked $986.9m in the week to Friday and $3.8bn across three weeks, but $730.9m of that came on Thursday alone, and the three-week run finished decelerating rather than building.
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The XRP Ledger's 8 million funded accounts are the headline, but the number carrying the institutional argument is an $85,000 average transfer, and Crypto Briefing prints it as a range with no median beside it.
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One conditional line from Christopher Waller moved September hike odds from 63.2% to a coin flip. The squeeze that followed force-closed $415 million of shorts against $92 million of longs -- forced buying, not investor demand.
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Korea's four biggest venues lost $364m in the first half, and the rebound since is landing unevenly, with Upbit's $1.04bn day beating Bithumb, Coinone and Digital X combined while it has waived fees only on stablecoins.
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